IGF 2010

Event
Process	IGF
Date	Sep. 14, 2010 – Sep. 17, 2010
Region	EUR
Country	Lithuania
City	Vilnius
Venue	Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (LITEXPO)
Websites	intgovforum.org/en/archived/the-igf-2010-meeting
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IGF 2010, the fifth annual IGF Meeting, was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 14-17, 2010.

Context

1461 people participated on the fifth IGF.

The event is structured around main sessions. Parallel to them, 113 workshops, best practice forums, dynamic coalition meetings and open forums were scheduled around the broad themes of the main sessions and the overall mandate of the IGF.

IGF 2010 was the last meeting of the IGF first mandate, so there was the question of the continuity of the Forum. During the Opening Ceremony, almost all speakers supported that the event should continue.

Theme

The overall theme was "IGF 2010 – developing the future together".

Discussion

The main sessions were designed around different themes.

First Session

The first session was around the "Managing Critical Internet Resources" theme, and discussed the following sub-themes:

• status of IPv6 availability around the world; examples and cases;
• the internationalization of critical Internet resources management and enhanced cooperation;

• the importance of new TLDs and IDNs for development;

• maintaining Internet services in situations of disaster and crisis.

It was chaired by Mindaugas Glodas, Country Manager of Microsoft Lithuania, and moderated by Chris Disspain, CEO of the .AU Registry and Chair of the ccNSO, and Jeanette Hofmann, Senior Researcher of the London School of Economics, Political Science and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin.

Remote moderation was done by Cathy Handley, Director for Government Affairs/Public Policy of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).

Second Session

The second session was around the "Access and Diversity" theme. The session focused on access to infrastructure and access to content and considered a range of issues from geo-location, the global reach of social networks and the linkages between access to knowledge and security solutions, both in terms of hardware and software.

It was chaired by Antanas Zabulis, and moderated by

• Nii Quaynor, Chairman and CEO of Network Computer Systems, and
• Olga Cavalli, Professor of the Universidad de Buenos Aires; Director of the South School on Internet Governance; and Advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina.

The remote moderator was Raquel Gatto, Assistant Professor of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo; and Associate of the DiploFoundation.

The panelists were:

• Mike Silber, Board of Directors of the .za Domain Name Authority;
• Manal Ismail, Director of International Technical Coordination Department of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Egypt and Vice-Chair of ICANN'S GAC;
• Yamil Salinas Martínez, Communications and Public Affairs of Telefónica;
• Philipp Grabensee, Chairman of the Board of Afilias;
• Mahesh Kulkarni, Department of Information Technology of the Government of India;
• Virat Bhatia, President of External Affairs, South Asia for AT&T.

Third Session

The third session was around the "Security, Openness and Privacy" theme, and discussed the following sub-themes:

• issues related to social media;

• the nature and characteristics of Internet networks, technologies, and standards; • international cooperation and collaboration on security, privacy and openness.

It was chaired by Evaldas Kulbokas, President of INFOBALT.

It was moderated by:

• Frank La Rue, Director of Centro-American Institute for Social Democracy Studies (DEMOS); and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression;
• Lisa Horner, Head of research and policy for Global Partners;
• David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy of Intel Corporation.

Remote moderation was done by Kieren McCarthy, General Manager (US) of GIBC.

Fourth Session

The fourth session was around the "Internet Governance for Development" theme, looking at the meaning of Internet governance for development (IG4D). This session explored the possible effects of global Internet governance arrangements on the development of the Internet in developing countries. The discussion considered the institutional processes and substantive policy outputs of governance arrangements and whether these may raise developmental concerns that have not received sufficient attention to date.

It was chaired by Vyatautas Grubliauskas, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Lithuanian Information Society Development, and moderated by Nitin Desai, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Internet Governance.

The floor moderators were:

• Christine Arida, Director of Telecom Planning and Services of the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt; and
• Ayesha Hassan, Senior Policy Manager, E-Business, IT, and Telecoms, Executive in charge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Policy for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris.

Remote moderation was provided by Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Founder of Global Information Highway.

The panelists were:

• Ndeye Maimouna Diop-Diagne, Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and ICT of Senegal;
• Everton Frask Lucero, Counsellor for Science, Technology and Environment for the Embassy of Brazil to the United States;
• Zahid Jamil, Senior Partner and Barrister-at-Law at Jamil & Jamil;
• Raúl Echeberria, Executive Director/CEO for the Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC);
• William Drake, Senior Associate of the Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies;
• Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications.

Fifth Session

The fifth session was around the "Emerging Issues - Cloud Computing" theme. This session brought together an overview of the issues from both the policy and the technical standpoints in the area and provided an initial exploration of the possible Internet governance considerations within cloud computing.

It was chaired by Algimantas Juozapavičius, Vice Dean for Information Technologies of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Vilnius University.

It was moderated by:

• Patrik Fältström, Distinguished Consulting Engineer at the Office of the CTO, Cisco, and Member of the Swedish Government IT Advisory Board;
• Katitza Rodriguez, International Rights Director at the Electronic FrontierFoundation.

Remote moderation was provided by Sandra Hoferichter, Architect and Project manager Medienstadt; Management and Communication at EuroDIG.

The panelists were:

• Susana Sargento, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the University of Aveiro, and Researcher at Institute of Telecommunications in Aveiro;
• Frank Osafo-Charles, Founder of Vericloud / Executive Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer of Patrina Corporation;
• Luis Magalhães, President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education; Professor at the "Instituto Superior Técnico" at Technical University of Lisbon;
• Kristina Irion, Advisory Board at the Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy, Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMCS) at the Central European University;
• Robert Pepper, Government Affairs at Cisco.

Sixth Session

The sixth session was around the "Taking Stock of Internet governance and the way forward" theme. The session took stock of the evolution of the overall Internet governance landscape since the first IGF meeting in Athens in 2006. It established a checkpoint on the changes seen in the practice of Internet governance over the first five years of the IGF. It also set a baseline from which to measure the changes over the next five years leading up to the ten-year review of implementation of and follow-up to the outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2015.

It was chaired by Henrikas Juškevičius, Adviser to the Director–General of UNESCO on Communication, Information and Administration issues.

It was moderated by Jonathan Charles, World News Presenter for the Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London.

Remote moderation was provided by Rafid A. Fatani, Ph.D researcher for the University of Exeter, UK.

Outcomes

Considering the end of the IGF's first mandate, the sixth main session commented on the similarities and differences in the Internet governance landscape since the first IGF. Although it was considered that the themes established on the first IGF were still relevant, several speakers noted that as the context of the Internet had changed, so had the discussion in the IGF.

While speakers acknowledged that there was still much work to be done, the discussions had matured and moved from basic explanations to good practices and deployment issues. For example, on some issues like internationalization of critical Internet resources speakers felt that progress had been made. The discussions had moved on from the need to explain the importance on multilingualism, to the methods of deploying Internationalized Domain Names and of user content in diverse languages and scripts.

Several speakers, including several parliamentarians, mentioned the IGF's success and growth over the years. One of the significant examples was the widespread introduction of regional and national IGF type meetings that have occurred over the last two years.

The issue of the IGF's being a discussion Forum over a decision-making one remained debatable. While several speakers talked about the need for a more results oriented IGF, others saw in the IGF practice of not negotiating outcomes one of its strengths, as it allowed for open discussions free from the pressure of negotiations.

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